• Chicago Tribune, Tuesday, June 23, 2009 9:17 AM

The Chicago Tribune is discontinuing its weekly Sunday magazine, Chicago Tribune Magazine, as of June 28. It will be replaced with a new section that will combine content from the paper's Smart and House & Homes sections with some magazine features and puzzles. A series of themed sections related to the magazine will be published roughly once a month beginning in September.

The newspaper's Sunday magazine traces its roots to 1914's Chicago Tribune Pictorial Weekly and took on its current form in 1953. Gerould Kern, Tribune editor, told staff the magazine was changed "because declining advertising and high costs made weekly publication unsustainable."

Other changes coming to the Sunday paper in July involve the introduction of new sections and consolidation of others. "We are investing in watchdog reporting, local news and digital publishing by shifting resources toward activities that readers and advertisers value most," says Kern. The Tribune's paid Sunday circulation average this year was about 858,000 copies, making it the No. 4 Sunday newspaper in the nation.

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